Cal, Mac Make Olympic Bids Today, Saturday
Coliseum Is Site
For Game Trials
Warsaw Lassie
Is Essay Winner
Daisy Lee Smith, 17, a 1956
graduate of the Douglass High
school of Warsaw, N. C., has
been named winner of the First
Campas Echo Essay Contest and
will enter North Carolina Col
lege in September on a full
tuition scholarship.
The contest, which opened in
April, was sponsored by the
Campus Echo, award winning
student newspaper at North
Carolina College.
It was a follow-up to a pub
lications conference sponsored
by the Echo on April 20. Some
250 students and teachers from
high schools throughout the
state attended the meeting which
dealt with newspapers and year-
Echo
VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1956
PRICE: 20 CENTS
Principals - Supervisors Meet Set For August 15 And 17
Integration In 25 Years: Dr. Browne
DAISY LEE SMITH
cipation in the essay contest was
restricted to students from those
schools represented at the con
ference.
Daisy wrote on the subject
“Youth and the Right to Know,”
and her entry was selected from
the total number submitted by
a panel of three judges — all
English professors at NCC.
The scholarship is worth
$130.50, the total cost of tuition
for one year at NCC.
Daisy has already notified the
Echo that she will accept the
scholarship and that she will en
ter NCC as a freshman in Sep
tember. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Smith,
Route 1, Box 120, Warsaw, and
one of eight children. A mem
ber of the First Baptist Church
of Warsaw, the young writer
plans to major in commercial
education in college. Her parents
are farmers.
“Twenty-five years from now
all of this ‘tulmult and shouting’
about desegregation and inte
gration will be in the same
category with witch biuning in
Salem.”
This is an opinion expressed
by Dr. Rose Butler Browne,
chairman of the NCC education
department, in an address at the
opening session of the Ameri
can Teachers Association’s Reg
ion III meeting at Winston-Sa-
lem Teachers College Sunday,
June 17.
Dr. Browne told the educators
from North and South Carolina
and Virginia, “People of good
will will be ashamed of their
cowardice in these times of
stress. Demagogues will deny
their uterances. The little child
ren will go to school together,
work and play together, settle
differences in the way of child
hood, and no one will remem
ber these foolish fears.”
Calling desegregation a major
crisis in education today. Dr.
Browne said men and women of
five yt^ars buli must begin now]
to seek intelligent solutions to
the problem. “Through shared
conjoin decisions we can build
our own destiny. The ideas that
will lead to decency and fulfil
ment for all must be nursed
like tiny children into strength
until they become powerfiil fac
tors in American education and
in world democracy,” she con
tinued.
On other “crucial issues” in
education, the NCC educator
said. 1) teachers should b^ rated
on the basis of merit in systems
where such ratings are fair; 2)
care should be taken to see that
special classes are not in fact
racially segregated classes but
are designed to meet special
gifts or handicaps not based on
race; 3) teacher should be able
to make membership or non
membership in reputable organi
zations a matter of personal
choice, “without coercion either
way”; 4) individual states
rather than the federal govern
ment should be primarily re
sponsible for public education
but they must not make laws
which conflict with the federal
constitution.
Other speakers at the meeting
included Dr. Elmer T. Hawkins,
national president of ATA, and
Dr. Elwood E. Chisolm, who
works in educational research in
New York. Dr. H. Council Tren-
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The seventeenth annual Prin
cipals - Supervisors Conference
will be held at North Carolina
College August 15-17. The con
fab, which approximately
two hundred principals and
supervisors are expected to at
tend, is under the general lead
ership of Dr. J. H. Taylor, direc
tor of the Summer School.
Dr. Spencer E. Durante, Prin
cipal of Carver High School, Mt
Olive, is chairman of the plan
ning committee.
The theme of the two-day
conference is “Educational Lead
ership and Improvement of In
struction.” Outstanding con
sultants for the conference are
Dr. Alonzo Davis, Dean of the
School of Education, Tuskegee
Institute, and Dr. Craig Wilson,
associate professor of education,
Alabama Polj^echnic Institute.
The Principals - Supervisors
Conference, a regular feature of
the NCC Summer School, is
under the joint sponsorship of
the North Carolina Teachers
Association and the North Caro
lina College Summer School.
DuBois Hi Grad
Gets Voice Grant
Janie'Massenburg, a graduate
of DuBois High* School in Wake
Forest, will enter NCC in Sep
tember on the first Nell Hunter
Voice Scholarship.
The scholarship, in the amount
of $75.00, has been set up to be
awarded armually in honor of
Mrs. Nell Hunter, NCC music
librarian and one of Durham’s
leading music personalities.
The award will be made on a
competitive basis annually to
“a deserving student entering
the college as a voice major.”
Dr. Robert John, chairman of
the music department, said re
cently the contest will be held
each spring in conjimction with
the NCMTA State Music Fes
tival.
Newspaper Help
Offered By Echo
For the third consecutive
year, NCC’s Simimer School
newspaper, the Summer Echo,
is sponsoring its volimteer’s
workshop in journalism for in
service teachers and students.
The workshop, imder the
direction of H. G. Dawson, Eng
lish instructor and NCC news
paper adviser, meets in the
Summer Echo office on the
ground floor of the James E.
Shepard Memorial Library.
Dawson is assisted by the
Smnmer Echo staff, which con
sists of Annie Hughes, Lawrence
Hampton, and Andress Taylor,
all members of the Campns Echo
newspaper staff, and other part
time typists and reporters.
Teachers and students come to
the office on a voluntary basis
for advice and materials which
they might use in advising ele
mentary and high school news
papers and yearbooks dinring
the regular school year.
According to Dawson, pamph
lets, charts, and other materials
and information are available to
interested students, many of
whom are already taking advan-
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The eyes and ears of Durham
— and indeed, of the entire
country — are focussed on Lo3
Angeles, California today. That
is where the best athletes in the
country are competing with
each other for the honor of
representing the United States
of America in the 1956 Olympic
Games to be held in Australia
iri November.
Winners of any of the first
three places in each event o£
track and field today and to
morrow will make up the U. S.
team that will compete with
similar teams from all over the
world “down under” in the
fall.
Apart from a general interest
in the outcome of today’s con
tests, NCC sports lovers are
especially interested in the per
formances of hurdler Lee Cal
houn and high jumper Charles
McCullough. They’re the two
standard bearers from North
Carolina College — the first
this institution has ever sent.
Surrounding schools — Duke
and UNC — are represented by
Dave Sime, sensational 100 and
200 meter star, and distance
runner Jim Beatty respective
ly-
However, hopes of repre
sentation from this area may
rest with Calhoim, the gangling
gazelle who has already estab
lished himself as the country’s
leader in his department by
annexing every championship in
sight. He is champ in the 120
(or 110 meter) yard hiiti
AA15, and the NAIA. (See sports
page.)
Sime is a question mark be
cause of a groin injury; and
both Beatty and McCullough
face a host of opponents who
have already topped their best
performance this year.
Calhoim himself will be up
against the stiffest competition
of his career, particularly in
Jack Davis, who broke the world
record in a 110 meter HH trial
heat last week; Duke’s Joe
Shankle, now coming into his
own; and Harrison “Old Bones”
Dillard.
Displaying the form above that has catapulted them to
the top ranks among-American athletes, NCC’s two track and
field stars — Lee Calhoun and Charles McCullough are in
Los Angeles today for the Olympic Trials. If they place in
either of the first three spots in their respective events,
they will be selected to represent the United States in the
global games slated for Australia in November.
Ed. Will Ride Out
Crisis: Dr. Elder
“As long as there is hope that
the yoimg of our generation will
have a future, education must
go on.”
That was the word given to
some 1,030 summer school stu
dents attending North Carolina
College this term by President
Alfonso Elder.
“Teaching in these times,” Dr.
Elder continued, “presents a
challenge to people of integrity,
intelligence, courage and devo
tion.”
Speaking at the stuniner
term’s only general assembly in
Duke Auditorium, Dr. Elder
continued: “Education has been
challenged before and it has
survived.
“Teachers in the past have
been challenged and they met
their challenge.”
The NCC educator cited the
possibilities that teachers and
students in these time are like
ly to be involved in “crisis situa
tions” that- made “academic
learning seem unimportant.”
Such possibilities among stu-
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